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How to Install a Hardwood Floor

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With patience and attention to detail, installing a new wooden floor can be an easy home improvement project.
Step 1: Check the first course of flooring.
If there is a heating register near the wall to work around, you will need to make sure that the first course of flooring will clear the trim of the register. With the trim of the register dry-fitted in place, place a piece of floorboard between the trim and the wall to make sure it will fit.
Check that the first course will clear the trim of the register.

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